Portable house.



No. 819,129. PATENTED MAY 1, 1906.

' W. M. DUGKER.

PORTABLE HOUSE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY27, 1905.

UN FEED STATES PATENT @FFIQE. WlLLIAM M. liddirnn, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

PORTABLE HOUSE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1906.

Griginal application filed December 27,1904, Serial No. 238,532. Divided and this application filed July 27,1905. SerialNo. 271,456.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. DUCKER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, in the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Houses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable houses where the parts going to make the house are constructed and fitted at the factory, so that they may be assembled on the site where the house is to be erected; and this application is a division of my application, Serial No. 238,532, filed December 27, 1904.

The present invention has relation to the construction of ventilating means under the roof of the building.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Fig ure 1 is a sectional View, the plane of the section being vertical and through the roof from the ridge to the eaves. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional detail view showing the bolt which secures the roof-section in position. Fig. 3 is a modification.

1 designates the upright siding-sections of the house 2, the wall-plate resting thereon; 3,

the beveled plate resting on the wall-plate to receive the roof, and 4 the roof-sections, which will usually be of uniform width and extend from the eaves to the ridge, where they abut and are secured together by suitable interlocking metal fastenings 5. The sections are attached to the plate 2 by a T- headed bolt 7. (Seen enlarged in Fig. 2.) This bolt passes down through the wall-plate and through the upper transverse member of the siding-section 1, and it has a nut on its lower end to draw it down firmly and bury the prongs 7 on its head into the wood of the adjacent roof-sections, as shown.

It may be explained here that the roof-section of wood may be constructed in any convenient manner. For example, it may have side bars connected by transverse mernbers and be covered by matched boards, as illustrated in my United States Patent No. 794,595, and the metal lockim devices 5 may be the same as shown in my said patent. These features form no essential part of the present application. The ventilating features are clearly illustrated in Fig. 1, which shows an inner ceiling formim a part of the roof and sloping therewith, there being an air-space and air circulation between the roof proper and said ceiling. In constructing this ceiling, as shown in Fig. 1, there are employed aridgeplate 16 and intermediate-plate 17, both of the desired width, and these extend lengthwise of the building parallel with the beveled wall-plate 3. These plates 16 and 17 are provided with cleats 18 to support ceilingboards 19, of matched stuff, the lower extremities of which engage a groove in the wall platc at 20. To insure a free circulation of air in the space between this ceiling and the roof-sections, the plates 3, 16, and 1 7 are perforated or apertured, as seen at 21.

In Fig. 3 the construction is in substance the same as that already described except that the air-space between the ceiling and roof is made narrower by omitting the parts 16, 17, and 18 and securing the ceiling 19 directly to the transverse members 4 of the roof-sections. To provide-air-passages 21, these members are cut away, as clearly shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claine 1. In a portable house, the combination with the siding-sections 1, and the plates 2 and 3, supported on the sidingsection, the latter havingin it apertures 21 of the roof-sections, notched onto the plate 3, T-bolts for securing the roof-sections in place, a ceiling 19 below the inner face or the roof-sections and plates 16 and 17, having in them also a ertures 21, said plates being provided with 0 cats to support said ceiling.

2. In a ortable house, the combination with the slding-scction 1, and the plates 2 and 3, supported on the siding-section, of the root-sections 4, notched at 6 to engage the plate 3, and the T headed bolt 7, which has 9 spurs on its head entering the wood of adj acent roof-sections, and which extends down through the plate 2 and the upper transverse member of the siding-section, substantially as set forth.

3. In a portable house, the combination In witness whereof I have hereunto signed with the Wall-plates and roof-sections, and the my name, this 24th day of July, 1905, in the 10 longitudinal plates 16 and 17, provided with presence of two subscribing Witnesses supporting-cleats of the ceiling boards 19 5 supported on said cleats and providing an- WILLIAM DUOKER' air-space between said ceiling and roof-sec- Witnesses: tions, and means for providing a circulation WILLIAM J. FIRTH,

of air through said space. H. G. How 

